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This book investigates the philosophical, socio-cultural, and artistic world of Japanese horror through a varied range of case studies, including video games (Rule of Rose), manga (Uzumaki), and anime (the classic Devilman). Film is represented with well-known works such as Ringu and overlooked filmmakers like Mari Asato.
List of contents
Introduction: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Subashish Bhattacharjee
Part 1: National Traumas and Repressions
Chapter 1: The Ghost of Imperialism: Japan's Forgotten Horrors in the Shadow of Sadako. Calum Waddell
Chapter 2: A Modern Monster: Shin-Godzilla and its Place in the Discourse Concerning 3.11 and National Resilience. Barbara Greene
Chapter 3: Cultural Trauma, Cross-Flow of Aesthetics, and the Child: A Comparison between Ringu and The Ring. Bipasha Mandal
Chapter 4: Space, Smoke and Mirrors: The Frightening Ambiguity of Ju-On: Origins (2020). Daniel Krátký
Chapter 5: "The Dead Speak: Horror and the Modern Ghost in Eiji ¿tsuka's The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. Megan Negrych
Part 2: Posthuman Monsters and Grotesque Bodies
Chapter 6: "Love in a Chair": Industrialization and Exploitation Edogawa Rampo's "The Human Chair" and Junji Ito's Manga Adaptation. Leonie Rowland
Chapter 7: The Monstrous Feminine in Mari Asato's J-Horror Films. Canela Ailén Rodriguez Fontao and Mariana Zárate
Chapter 8: Composite Corpses and Viruses of Viewing: J-Horror as Film and Media Theory. William Carroll
Chapter 9: Spiral into Samsara in Junji Ito's J-Horror Masterpiece Uzumaki. Wayne Stein
Chapter 10: Controlling the Inner Demon: Theological Approaches on Devilman. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Part 3: Cultural Flows
Chapter 11: The Transpacific Complicity of J-Horror and Hollywood. Seán Hudson
Chapter 12: Revisiting the Orphan Girl Narrative in Rule of Rose. Ingrid Butler
Chapter 13: Idol Culture and Gradations of Reality in Japanese Found Footage Horror Films. Dennin Ellis
Chapter 14: Obscure, Reveal, Repeat: Hidden Worlds and Uncertain Truths in K¿ji Shiraishi's The Curse and Occult. Lindsay Nelson
About the Editors
About the Contributors
About the author
Edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns; Subashish Bhattacharjee and Ananya Saha - Contributions by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns; Subashish Bhattacharjee; Calum Waddell; Barbara Greene; Bipasha Mandal; Daniel Krátký; Megan Negrych; Leonie Rowland; Cane
Summary
This book investigates the philosophical, socio-cultural, and artistic world of Japanese horror through a varied range of case studies, including video games (Rule of Rose), manga (Uzumaki), and anime (the classic Devilman). Film is represented with well-known works such as Ringu and overlooked filmmakers like Mari Asato.
